Wierd screen on waking MacBook Pro

[Welshbird]

On occasion when I wake my MacBookPro from sleep, the screen is muddled an pixilated and just onhte top two inces of the visible display.

If I shut the lid and wait, sometimes it rectifies itsels, and other times I need a re-boot to sort it out.

Any ideas? It's spoiling my "My Mac is better cos I don't have to wait for it to boot" argument...

The Apple forums suggest that it is a hardware issue, but I'm not too sure.

Fee

The question should be [red]Is it worth trying to do?[/red] not [blue] Can it be done?[/blue]

 

[mrn]

Fee

Seems your not the only one, logic board problem

http://www.macintouch.com/readerreports/macbookpro/topic3863.html

May 16 2006

Mike

"Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild, harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's characters."

 

[Welshbird]

Boo.

That's not good then. I'll be emailing apple support and seeing what gives....

Thanks Mike

Fee

The question should be [red]Is it worth trying to do?[/red] not [blue] Can it be done?[/blue]

 

[Welshbird]

Update to this - I installed the latest firmware upgrade from the apple site, as it said it dealt with some problems on waking from sleep, and I thought it was worth a go...

And I've had no problems since. So - fingers crossed...

Fee

The question should be [red]Is it worth trying to do?[/red] not [blue] Can it be done?[/blue]

 

[mrn]

Good news.

Just out of interest Fee, How do you find the MBP compared to you old machine?

Mike

"Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild, harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's characters."

 

[Welshbird]

It's certainly seems faster - I like the new OS (was using 10.3 before) and I guess I'm not sure what is diifferent due to OS and what to hardware.

It's very pretty though... ([/end girlie mode] and the glosst screen is EXCELLENT both for messing with photo's / video / graphics generally and for using in some sunlight without losing all ability to see anything..

Um... I had a 12" powerbook before, so the things like a backlit keyboard and the wiide screen I didn't have before either.

I'm very fond of it though. I heard so much bad press about noisiness and heat and batterylife, and I haven't had prolems with any of those at all. This was my only issue, and it hasn't happened since the firmware upgrade.

Fee

The question should be [red]Is it worth trying to do?[/red] not [blue] Can it be done?[/blue]